MURDER INC: UK officials have indicated that Iran was behind the deaths of all eight British soldiers killed in Iraq this year. According to this dislosure, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards have been providing explosive technology to radical Shi'a militants based in the country's south, including cleric Moqtada Sadr's Mehdi army, by way of Hezbollah in Lebanon. See Times, and the Weekly Standard for more on the Revolutionary Guards, truly a nasty bunch of chaps.

For more nasty chaps, see this WSJ piece on al-Manar, the Hezbollah telly network which is your first stop on cable for unbiased trustworthy information on Jewish ritual child murder, the underrated joys of jihad and DIY martyrdom in Iraq in five easy steps. Nissan and Tefal advertise on the network; for shame.